Word: sheepish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watched a demonstration of warplanes beingcatapulted off the deck and screeching into thesky. A thunderous sonic boom from an F-14 caughthim by surprise, and Bush's knees buckled and heducked. He recovered quickly with a sheepish grinand a funny face for cameras...
...sort of event favored by Administrators, grandmothers and the pony-riding milquetoasts of Eliot House...or preserve the original intent of this, the last true bastion of fun at Harvard. Nothing short of House pride is at stake here. Those who do not will have to live with their sheepish unworthy selves for yet another year. We challenge you all to take to heart the motto of the Three-Time Champion Leverett House Raft Race Corps...
...foreign tourists, diplomats and even the locals long ago discovered, it is tricky to find one's way around the Soviet Union. No wonder. In a startling admission last week, a sheepish-sounding Soviet official said the Kremlin has deliberately falsified virtually all maps of the country for the past 50 years on the orders of the secret police. Chief Soviet Cartographer Viktor Yashchenko told the newspaper Izvestia, "Roads and rivers were moved. City districts were tilted. Streets and houses were incorrectly indicated...
...faults are as profound as they come: the author has made little effort to say anything relevant, let alone meaningful, to any audience other than perhaps children. As a result, the humor--and Simon does have a undeniable knack for one-liners--is entirely superficial and makes you feel sheepish for actually laughing...
...analyst who follows the company. But Disney's executives deny smugness as if they were warding off an evil spell. "You always have to believe you're in last place," said Eisner recently as he flew across the country in Disney's leased Gulfstream III jet, looking a bit sheepish about the luxury. "Flying on this kind of plane is exactly what leads to your financial demise," he observed...